Handbook of Global Health
Description
Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics.
This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health.
As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.More details
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Robin Haring, Ph.D. Professor at the European University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Adjunct Professor at Monash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia.
His research interests focus on biomarker, cardiovascular epidemiology and global health. He published 100+ articles, several books and book chapters, and received fellowships and funding from the Max-Planck Society, European Union and World Heart Federation. He is also editor-in-chief of the Springer Major Reference Work "Gesundheitswissenschaften".
Ilona Kickbusch, Ph.D. Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
She has had a distinguished career with the WHO, where she initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and a range of "settings projects" including Healthy Cities. Her key areas of interest are global health governance, global health diplomacy and health in all policies. She advises organisations, government agencies and the private sector on policies and strategies to promote global health at all levels. She has published widely and is a member of a number of advisory boards in both the academic and the health policy arena. She has recently launched a think-tank initiative "Global Health Europe: A Platform for European Engagement in Global Health" and the "Consortium for Global Health Diplomacy".
Detlev Ganten, MD, Ph.D. Founding President of the World Health Summit and Chairman of the Board of the Charité Foundation.
He was appointed as Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg in 1975 and moved to Berlin in 1991 where he became the Founding Director and President of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC). He held these roles until 2004, when he became the Chief Executive Officer at the "Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin". His research in the molecular biology of high blood pressure, public health and bioethics received many international awards and prizes. He also functions in various scientific societies and committees, including several honours and awarded memberships. In 2009, he founded the World Health Summit, a leading annual international conference in Berlin to find solutions for the challenges posed by global health.
Matshidiso Moeti, MD WHO Regional Director for Africa.
Prior to WHO, she worked with UNAIDS as Team Leader of the Africa and Middle East Desk in Geneva (1997-1999), with UNICEF as Regional Health Advisor for East and Southern Africa, and with Botswana's Ministry of Health as a clinician and public health specialist. Within WHO, she served as Assistant Regional Director, Director of Non-Communicable Diseases at the regional office, WHO Country Representative in Malawi and Coordinator of the Inter-Country Support Team for the South and East African countries of WHO African Region. As a public health veteran, with more than 35 years of national and international experience, she was the first woman to be elected as WHO Regional Director for Africa in 2015. Under her leadership she is cultivating strong partnerships to support countries to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), improve health security, and promote better well-being to make health a reality for all people in Africa.
Content
Global Health - Principles and Drivers
Scope & principles of global health Development & drivers of global health Globalization Urbanisation Ageing Diversity Digitalization
PART 2
Global Health Epidemiology Epidemiological methods & measures Observational studies Interventional studies Experimental studies Ecological studies Causal inference in epidemiology Evidence sythesis in epidemiology
PART 3
Population Health Dynamics Disease surveillance & screening Dynamics of disease occurence & transmission Epidemiological transition & changing pattern of disaese Demographic approaches to population dynamics Mortality Migration Fertility & family
PART 4
Global Burden of Disease (sorted by global relevance) Global & regional causes of mortality CVD (Ischemic Heart Disease & Stroke) COPD Cancer Alzheimer & other Dementias Diabetes Mellitus Road injury Tuberculosis, Malaria & other communicable diseases Mental health disorders
PART 5
Global Health Risks (sorted by global relevance) Global & regional clusters of health risks High blood pressure Tabacco smoking Dietary risks Alcohol use Air pollution Overweight & adiposity Physical inactivity Violence & injuries
PART 6
Global Health Life Span Perspective Reproductive & maternal health Infant health Health of children & adolescents Midlife health Health in elderly (65+) Health in oldest old (80+) Birth cohort effects & generation health Life course approaches in Global Health
PART 7
Global Health Inequality Determinants & concepts of health inequality Socioeconomics Gender Ethnics Geography Ecology Culture Lifestyle Micro-level inequality & health (individual) Macro-level inequality & health (country / region)
PART 8
Global Health Care Systems Health systems - models, components & goals Comparative health systems analysis & evaluation Measuring health system performance Complementary alternative medicine - approaches & utilization Health care delivery & interoperability Social networks & community services Designing & reforming health systems Health economics - strategies & methods in health financing Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
PART 9
Digital Global Health Global Health in the digital age Electronic medical records (EMR) & Big Data in health care E-health solutions in Global Health Digital medical diagnostics AI & machine learning in health care Robotics & Active Assisted Living (AAL) Real World Data (RWD) in Global Health
PART 10
Global Health Policy & Ethics Human rights & Global Health UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - concept & challenges Scope & implications of the "Health in all policy" Health in all - transportation & mobility Health in all - agriculture & land use Health in all - achitecture & housing Health in all - urban development Health in all - education Health in all - public safety Building healthy communities (community wellbeing) Ethical principles in Global Health Evidence-based Public Health
PART 11
Global Environmental Health Environment & human health Quantifying environmental burden of disease Water & sanitation Air pollution Nutrition & food safety Energy production & use Chemicals & toxic substances Solid & hazardous waste Occupational health
PART 12
Global Health Emergencies Emergencies in Global Health Natural disasters War & humanitarian crisis Human trafficking Climate change impact on human health Management of complex emergencies
PART 13
Global Health Case & Country Studies Bangladesh Thailand Australia Nigeria Brasil Haiti China Germany
PART 14
Global Health Workforce, Education & Institutions Human resources for Global Health Health professionals - workforce education & training Community-based health workers (CHWs) Health worker migration Global Health institutions & strategies Global Health & industry (tabacco, alcohol, food) Global Health governance Global Health partnerships & translation Multilevel cooperation in Global Health